surge through long island sound in the city and from the narrows. what is amazing, this has the chance to do that and that puts the battery underwater and we could have subways flooded and everything else back in here. >>neil: we are coming up on election day. could we see power outages, still, on election day? >>guest: i am taking credit for starting that a couple days ago with a tweet. a friend said what about the election, and i said, y right, we can have power outages, we will, until that time. >>neil: a broad area? >>guest: from washington, dc, all the way up to boston. like rick said, this will have a wide swath of wind but what will distinguish this storm coming from the southeast will be the amazing storm surge in some places that have not seen this, the northern jersey shore and the southern jersey shore. providence, if it came out further east, providence was under 50' water and now there is a dam. we have not seen this, myself and my father who is a meteorologist, we wonder idea we have not soon it, my dad called it the shortcut storm tha